Victoria Crown Land Tenure Polygons and Government Roads

Vicmap Crown Land Tenure Basic is a decoded, statewide dataset for managing Victoria's Crown land. It includes tenure polygons and government roads, created from migrating LCMP layers between June 2003 and February 2004. The data is provided by the Department of Transport and Planning.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of Crown land tenure polygons to assess land management coverage.
• Map government road polygons for infrastructure planning and public land access studies.
• Integrate tenure polygon descriptors with other spatial datasets for land use policy analysis.

Strengths

• Statewide spatial coverage of Victoria's Crown land.
• Data migrated from legacy LCMP layers into the Vicmap structure.
• Available in multiple GIS file formats including SHP, DXF, TAB, and GDB.

Limitations

• Core data creation period is 2003-2004, potentially limiting temporal relevance.
• Apiary rights and licenses are excluded, housed in a separate dataset.
• Unknown row count and column structure limit precise analytical planning.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria.

Collection Method

Migrated from LCMP layers into the Vicmap structure.

Time Range

Data created June 2003 - February 2004.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

State of Victoria, Australia.